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| Job 39:1 | Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? | Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young? |
| Job 39:2 | Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? | Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you? |
| Job 39:3 | They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. | They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body. |
| Job 39:4 | Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. | Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again. |
| Job 39:5 | Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? | Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast? |
| Job 39:6 | Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. | To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place. |
| Job 39:7 | He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. | He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears; |
| Job 39:8 | The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. | He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing. |
| Job 39:9 | Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? | Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store? |
| Job 39:10 | Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? | Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you? |
| Job 39:11 | Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? | Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care? |
| Job 39:12 | Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? | Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor? |
| Job 39:13 | Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? | Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers, |
| Job 39:14 | Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, | That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust, |
| Job 39:15 | And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. | Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field? |
| Job 39:16 | She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; | She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear. |
| Job 39:17 | Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. | For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge. |
| Job 39:18 | What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. | When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him. |
| Job 39:19 | Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? | Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power? |
| Job 39:20 | Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. | Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath? |
| Job 39:21 | He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. | He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear. |
| Job 39:22 | He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. | In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword. |
| Job 39:23 | The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. | The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow. |
| Job 39:24 | He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. | Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn; |
| Job 39:25 | He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. | When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries. |
| Job 39:26 | Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? | Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south? |
| Job 39:27 | Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? | Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high? |
| Job 39:28 | She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. | On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place. |
| Job 39:29 | From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. | From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off. |
| Job 39:30 | Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she. | His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen. |
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